| Costs and Disease SupportiveArgument1 #119629 Appropriate food/nutrition can save billions of $ in health care costs by preventing or delaying the progression of millions of Americans who live with chronic diseases. The costs effects and treatments of those diseases are significantly exacerbated by hunger, food insecurity, and undernutrition. |
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- CitationsAdd new citationList by: CiterankMapLink[1] HR 1382
Author: Congress
Cited by: Rehan Chaudry 3:12 AM 28 September 2011 GMT
Citerank: (3) 119620+50m Americans live in households that face a struggle against hunger17,200,000 of whom are children.1198CE71, 119623The number of Americans facing hunger continues to growThe Government spends more than $100,000,000 every year responding to the concurrent epidemics of hunger and undernutrition, yet the number of Americans facing hunger continues to grow and our Nation’s nutritional health is declining.1198CE71, 119627HungerA national discussion of the root causes of hunger, food insecurity, and undernutrition, as well as identification of solutions to these epidemics, can lead to action to implement such solutions and to end hunger in America.1198CE71
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